Teens believe oral sex is safer, more acceptable to peers
...themselves." Guidelines for adolescent health care call for physicians and other health providers to discuss sex and other risky behaviors during regular medical checkups. Those sessions are one opportunity to work with adolescents on the topic of risks and preventive measures with oral sex as well as vag...Tip sheet Annals of Internal Medicine, April 5, 2005
...ifth Edition of Ethics Manual (Note to reporters: call for news release or copy of manual.)...50 years after Salk polio vaccine: Status of global eradication efforts
...Reporters may participate via telephone conference call by dialing 800-860-2442 and referencing "polio briefing." WHY: Because of the development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines, polio was eliminated from the Americas in 1994, but it still circulates in Asia and Africa. The Global Polio Eradicati...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...Reporters may participate via telephone conference call by dialing 800-860-2442 and referencing "vaccine development briefing." WHY: The development of the Salk polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh is considered one of medicine's greatest milestones. April 12 marks the 50th anniversary of the...ACP releases 5th Edition of its respected ethics manual
...r further information about the ACP Ethics Manual, call Lois Snyder, JD, director of the ACP Center for Ethics and Professionalism (215-351-2835). The ACP Ethics Manual is available on the ACP Website at www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/142/7/560 . Reprints of the manual as it appears in Annals of Interna...Study finds no link between cell phone use and brain tumors
...ding minimizes the possibility of what researchers call "recall bias," or the chance that people with brain tumor may exaggerate or underestimate their past cell phone use. Johansen noted that there have been few long-term cell phone users or heavy cell phone users in any of the studies. "In our study, fe...Exercise may not be good enough to reduce mild hypertension in older people, Hopkins experts say
...nal Archives of Internal Medicine online April 11, call into question the effectiveness of national guidelines on exercise for lowering blood pressure in older people. Current guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine recommend 30- to 45-minute periods of combined aerobic exercise and mode...Heart valve ring reverses damage from congestive heart failure, easing symptoms
... about mitral valve surgery options at the U-M may call 734-936-1900. The GeoForm ring may complement another device now under study to help failing hearts continue to pump, Bolling says. That device, called the Acorn CorCap Cardiac Support Device, is a mesh sac that wraps around the heart and holds the e...Independent voice rises to help consumers navigate health care
...percent) were uninsured at the time of their first call to a health consumer center, only 31 percent were uninsured when they were contacted a month later. "This suggests that the HCA played a role in helping consumers obtain coverage," Nascimento said. "Moreover, the HCA appears to be making a contribut...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...us. For more information on the WNV vaccine trial, call the Vaccine Research Center's toll free number 1-866-833-LIFE, or visit the VRC Web site http://www.niaid.nih.gov/vrc/clintrials/clinstudies.htm . The vaccine in this study builds upon an experimental vaccine developed by CDC researcher Jeff Chang,...Child magazine editor addresses region's first annual women's and children's health care conference
...the Ohio Nurses Association. For more information, call Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital at 216-844-1964....Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
...rograms and sustained public education. They also call for greater efforts to reduce binge drinking. "Our study confirms what we were beginning to suspect and dreading to learn," said Quinlan, "that this is a huge problem and we are losing ground."...Louder neurons form more connections, Stanford research shows
...ensive branching structures, which the researchers call the neuron's arbor, most of those branches eventually receded while neighboring neurons formed a large number of stable connections. When the fish were five days old, the green neurons had a smaller, less complex arbor than those of neighboring neuro...Emory holds national conference on HIV vaccine and drug research
... http://www.informedhorizons.com/bridging2005 or call the Conference Secretariat at 770-997-2484. ...NIH awards funding to biotech firm for heart disease
...s with them so new blood vessels will grow. Plans call for patient testing to occur at University Hospitals of Cleveland later this year, pending NIH and FDA approval. In the study, patients with blocked or damaged heart vessels will have stem cells drawn from their own blood. These cells will then be en...UT Southwestern lead site for study of a new multiple sclerosis drug
...t of primary progressive MS. For more information, call 214-648-6449....Participants needed for generalized anxiety disorder study at UT Southwestern
...ted medical care at no cost. For more information, call 214-648-5249....ASGE Foundation to hold first Crystal Awards Dinner
...iduals within Congress who go above and beyond the call of duty in their work with healthcare legislation, particularly in the area of GI endoscopy. Rep. Slaughter and Sen. Roberts sponsored legislation that would require all health plans to cover colorectal cancer screening as a benefit. Audiovisua...Institute of Medicine news: Changes needed in WIC program
...ation of the new federal dietary guidelines, which call for people to eat more fruits and vegetables daily. The only fruits and vegetables currently provided through WIC are juice for all participants 4 months and older, and carrots for new mothers who breast-feed rather than formula-feed. The committe......ers and photodetectors,the UCSD device, which they call a fluidic photonic integratedcircuit (FPIC), uses tiny light emitting diodes and silicondetectors for triggering, and then monitoring fluorescence from,passing cells to detect them with 10,000 times better sensitivitythan before. The researchers are...